A heavyset woman, Rachel Jackson had arrived in the city just in time for a series of victory balls, where high society marvelled at a sight described by one merchant as "the General, a long, haggard man, with limbs like a skeleton, and Madame la Generale, a short, fat dumpling, bobbing opposite each other" on the dance floor.
The New Yorker, November 14 , 1925P. 1 Prince of Wales supports movement to prevent holding Victory Ball on Armistice Night.
The private atmosphere at the Fords contrasted starkly with the vast "victory ball" for Tory at Toronto's Liberty Grand, where several halls, decked with chandeliers and backlit with Tory's blue and green, thronged with a cheering crowd.
On the night the war ended, residents of Asola removed the seats from the town's theater for a victory ball.
LOSING STREAKS STOPPED Eastern Michigan's overtime victory against Ball State stopped an 18-game losing streak.
Quarterback Brad Smith had 229 yards of total offense in the first half to lead visiting MISSOURI (2-0) to a 35-7 victoverover BALL STATE (1-1).
In basketball, Rutgers lost, 58-46, to No. 7 Georgetown, scoring 6 fewer points than the football team did in its victory against Ball State in the International Bowl.
Two of those came on consecutive fourth-quarter possessions, including Marvin Mitchell's interception that all but clinched Miami's victory — Jets ball at the Dolphins 10, trailing, 16-10, and 3 minutes 10 seconds remaining.
Three days after Rice ran for a school-record 280 yards in a 52-30 victoverover Ball State in the International Bowl, he said Tuesday that he would forgo his final year of eligibility to enter the 2008 N.F.L. draft.
WOMEN No. 1 UConn Wins, But Is Challenged Asjha Jones scored 19 points and Diana Taurasi had a career-high 12 assists to lead top-ranked Connecticut to a 103-69 victoverover Ball State last night in Storrs, Conn.
Blake Bortles threw three touchdown passes and ran for another score to lead Central Florida to a 38-17 victoverover Ball State in the Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl in St .Petersburg, Fla. Bortles threw touchdown passes of 7 and 5 yards to Latavius Murray, who also scored on a 2-yard run to help the Knights (10-4) build a 21-point halftime lead in their final game as a member of Conference USA.
